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26 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 452 (2008)
Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda

handle is hein.journals/berkjintlw26 and id is 456 raw text is: Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda By Amiram Gill* In the post-Enron years, corporate governance has shifted from its tradi- tional focus on agency conflicts to address issues of ethics, accountability, transparency, and disclosure. Moreover, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increasingly focused on corporate governance as a vehicle for incorporat- ing social and environmental concerns into the business decision-making proc- ess, benefiting not only financial investors but also employees, consumers, and communities. Currently, corporate governance is being linked more and more with business practices and public policies that are stakeholder-friendly. This Article examines these developments and their impact on the formulation of a transnational body of legal norms by proceeding in three stages. First, the Arti- cle explores the recent transformations in the regulation of corporate govern- ance and CSR and the shifts these two fields have experienced. Second, it reads these transformations as a convergence, taking place against the background of New Governance and encompassing both corporate self-regulation and ef- forts by social groups to make this regulation more effective (meta- regulation'). Third, the Article discusses the prospects and challenges of this convergence by outlining a series of conceptual and methodological inquiries as well as policy ramifications to be pursued by scholars and practitioners in the fields of law and corporate conduct. . J.S.D. Candidate, J.S.M, 2006, Stanford University; LL.B, 2004, Tel Aviv University. I am grate- ful to Eli Bukspan, Guy Davidov, Cynthia Estlund, David Millon, Lawrence Mithcell, Alison Morantz, Noam Peleg, Frances Raday, Anat Rodnizky, Ofer Sitbon, Omri Yadlin, and the partici- pants at the Stanford Law School JSD Research Colloquium for their comments on earlier drafts.

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